The Hawkeye*

The Story. This is the story of the education
of Fremont McConkey, Hawkeye—how he and the State of Iowa grew up
together. The bare-foot boy, born in a sod hut, who assimiliated a curious education
from back numbers of The New York Weekly, The Lives of the Presidents
and the Victorian poets, became a leading citizen—a prosperous,
successful newspaper editor. The waste and beautiful prairies were
civilized into the richest farming land in the world. In some six
decades...